POLICE & FIRE

ARSON: Battle Creek police said a car was undamaged after someone spread lighter fluid on the sun roof and set it on fire. Police were called to the 100 block of Calhoun Street at 8:04 p.m. Tuesday and said the owner of the car, a woman, 30, had put out the fire by hitting it with a sweatshirt. She told police she came out of her home and saw the fire on top of her 1999 model car and extinguished the fire before it damaged the car. Police said the woman's children may have started the fire.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A Battle Creek man, 23, was arrested after his former girlfriend, 21, said she was assaulted at her home in the first block of Tennyson Avenue about 10:49 p.m. Wednesday. The woman said she was arguing with her former boyfriend who is the father of her children when he pushed her down on the bed and held her by the throat and said he would not allow her up until she said please. The man told police he pushed the woman onto the bed but then left without any further assault.